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Eric Nuss speaks and writes about business growth, owner-led operations, practice economics, transactions, and what happens when the systems underneath a business stop working.
Why Eric
An operator's point of view, not a commentator's.
Operator, not commentator
Eric has built, led, bought, sold, advised, and helped restructure businesses from inside the operating reality, not from the sidelines.
25 years in practice services
His work spans business growth, practice profitability, education, management, M&A, and owner-led healthcare businesses.
A point of view shaped by both building and breaking
His perspective comes from what works when a business is growing, what fails when the underlying systems do not keep up, and what owners learn when the stakes become personal.
Speaking and interview topics
What Eric can talk about.
Why profitable businesses still break
The operating systems, decision gaps, and owner dependencies that can quietly undermine an otherwise healthy business.
The systems behind owner-led growth
Why growth creates complexity faster than most owners build management capacity.
What actually increases practice value
The financial and operating factors that influence transferability, buyer appetite, and valuation.
Why EBITDA is not the whole story
What buyers see beyond earnings, including owner dependence, provider depth, recurring revenue, concentration, and management capability.
Building a business that can survive the owner
How to reduce founder dependence and create an organization that works without constant owner intervention.
What buyers see that owners miss
The difference between how an owner experiences a business and how a buyer underwrites it.
Growth without operating discipline
Why revenue growth alone can make a business weaker, more fragile, and harder to manage.
The hidden cost of founder dependence
How operational dependence on one person affects scale, value, and eventual transition.
The Broke(n) Part(s)
What founders learn when business pressure, money, identity, decisions, and personal life collide.
Available formats
Keynote or a thirty-minute podcast. Either works.
- Keynotes
- Breakouts
- Panels
- Podcasts
- Executive roundtables
- Webinars
- Media interviews and commentary
The book
The Broke(n) Part(s)
A founder field guide for what happens when business pressure, cash flow, decisions, and personal life all collide at once.
Eric talks about the parts that broke, the parts that did not, and what an owner can do before the pressure arrives. Bring the questions your audience is already asking.
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Approved bios
Eric Nuss is the founder of XpoNential Management, an operations management and transaction advisory firm for independent healthcare businesses. Over 25 years in practice services he has built, led, bought, sold, and advised owner-led businesses, and he is the author of The Broke(n) Part(s), a field guide for founders under pressure.
Eric Nuss is the founder of XpoNential Management, an operations management and transaction advisory firm serving independent dental and healthcare businesses. His 25 years in practice services span sales, regional operations, education, company building, acquisitions, and ownership transitions. At Henry Schein he built the Business Solutions division and created the Dental Business Institute, a business education program for practice owners completed by more than three hundred owners. He later led business development for a national dental group and founded and ran a dental services organization as chief executive. He holds an MBA from the University of Iowa and is the author of The Broke(n) Part(s).
Eric Nuss is the founder of XpoNential Management, an operations management and transaction advisory firm serving independent dental and healthcare businesses. Rather than delivering recommendations and leaving, the firm works inside the business, supplying the financial reporting, operating cadence, vendor management, team accountability, and growth planning that larger organizations employ people to run.
His career spans 25 years in practice services. At Henry Schein he served as a regional general manager before founding and leading the company's Business Solutions division. There he created the Dental Business Institute, a multi-session business education program for practice owners with a national faculty, and led its classroom for eight years. More than three hundred owners completed the program.
He subsequently held business development leadership at a national dental group, where he worked on associate equity and practice acquisitions, and founded and ran a dental services organization as chief executive. Across that career he has worked more than one hundred practice transactions on both the buy side and the sell side.
He holds an MBA from the University of Iowa and is the author of The Broke(n) Part(s), published in 2026. He is based in Parker, Colorado.
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Fast facts
- Founder of XpoNential Management
- 25 years in dental and healthcare practice services
- Built Business Solutions and the Dental Business Institute at Henry Schein
- Founder of multiple companies
- Experience in operations, growth, transactions, and advisory work
- Author of The Broke(n) Part(s)
- Spelling is XpoNential, capital X and capital N, no space, no hyphen
- Based in Parker, Colorado
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